Learn Italian Through Songs

Songs are a great way to learn Italian! Listening to a song and singing along allows us to practice Italian pronunciation while committing to memory new vocabulary through repetition. Italian songs are also a window into Italian culture. Song after song you will familiarize yourself with famous Italian singers and songwriters from the last 40 years and their greatest hits, songs that virtually all Italians know.

Listen to the song by clicking on the YouTube video and use the text below to read and sing along. Download the printable PDF lesson for a side-by-side translation and a mini lessons. Enjoy!

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In Italian there are two verbs that translate the English verb To Know, sapere (to know something or to know how to do something) and conoscere (to know someone, to be acquainted with someone or some place). With this blog post, we will focus on the uses and meanings of the verbsaperein the present tense.

Who is Vasco Rossi? He is an Italian musician with a distinctive "rocking" style. He has been famous since the late 70s and is loved by the older and the newer generations alike.

Albachiara (1979) is one of his most famous songs. It is a good song for learning or reviewing the Italian present tense of regular verbs, including common Italian reflexive verbs, and some useful vocabulary to talk about the different parts of a day, such as alba (dawn) and tramonto (sunset), mattina (morning) and sera (evening).

Listen to the song while reading the text below and sing along! See if you can figure out the meaning of words you don't know.

Download the free, printable PDF lesson and listen again, this time following the text of the song with the blanks and filling in the blanks as you listen. The PDF also includes vocabulary lists, grammar explanations, and practice exercises.